Dear Colleagues,
First of all, apologies for cross-posting and a little respite from the PhD/education thread...
The Energy and Co-Designing Communities (ECDC) research team (Mike
Michael, ,Bill Gaver, Jennifer Gabrys, Alex Wilkie, Tobie Kerridge,
Liliana Ovalle) at Goldmsiths, University of London would like to inform
you of their new interactive website at www.ecdc.ac.uk. As a collaboration
between Science and Technology Studies and Design, ECDC seeks to
understand how new technologies can be designed to support communities in
reducing their energy consumption. In particular, we are interested in
getting at what is often neglected in studies of energy consumption and
its reduction: the imaginative, playful, emotional and potential aspects
of people’s use of relevant technologies.
We are working with existing communities engaged in reducing energy
demand, to understand the range of perspectives and knowledge they embody.
Using materials drawn from field trips, workshops, and probes, we will
design novel devices and give them to participating communities to test in
their own settings. These devices will be unfamiliar, playful, ambiguous
but will hopefully expose new possible ways of thinking, doing and feeling
in relation to energy consumption. We will visit our participants and
study what they have made of our designs. We are also interested to see
what sorts of discussions have been sparked off by our designs. To this
end, we have also designed this website to encourage exchanges between our
participants and between our participants and wider community.
We invite you to visit the website and we welcome all contributions
whether they be comments on the project, reflections on the website
itself, stories about your own experiences with energy reduction projects
or technologies, or suggestions of additional resources or contacts. You
can contribute by emailing us at [log in to unmask] or by registering as a user and
blogging directly into the website.
Thanks!
Mike Michael
Bill Gaver
Jennifer Gabrys
Alex Wilkie
Tobie Jerridge
Liliana Ovalle
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Dr. Alex Wilkie
Lecturer & Research Fellow
Interaction Research Studio &
Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5184
Mob: +44 (0)781 796 0120
http://www.alexwilkie.org
http://www.gold.ac.uk/interaction/
http://www.gold.ac.uk/csisp/
http://www.gold.ac.uk/design/staff/wilkie/
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